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I'm doing some writing-my-thinking-process-out-loud kinds of posts about Wine-Dark Sea over on Facebook, where y'all are welcome to check me out. I'll round them up here from time to time as well ( Read more... )

The Kickstarter is over and there's more than enough money to pay me to write a chapter-length setting for Apotheosis Drive X. So that's what I'm going to be doing in the next few weeks ( Read more... )

This is kind of fun right now. There's a day and a half to go on the Apotheosis Drive X Kickstarter, and we're $900-ish dollars away from the level need to pay for me to write a setting of future sea life versus Martians. Since I'm not responsible for any of the business end of ADX, I get the fun of watching and wondering without feeling any big ( Read more... )

Notes on re-reading Iain Banks: Consider Phlebas. When I first read this, I wasn't prepare for an intriguing modern space opera intrigue-and-adventure tale to become an epic tragedy. This time I was, and you know? It's still a wallop. The complex converging flaws that make the climax flow so naturally from all the decisions before are beautifully ( Read more... )

Following a tip from Geoff Skellams, Frances and I signed up at Munzee and went out on a first hunt this evening. We had a lot of fun roaming the neighborhood, and captured three markers, along with some bookstore browsing, some photography (see below), and a whole lot of conversation.

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In addition to moving, I replaced my 2007 vintage not-at-all smart phone with an iPhone 4S, and I've been experimenting a lot with it. Here you go.


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